<div dir="ltr"><div>In short:<br><br>Maybe just adding options to <i>"dancer2 gen</i>" is the way. When creating an app, then have the possibility to define these type of parameters.<br><br></div>Peco<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-03-18 15:55 GMT+01:00 Warren Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wyml@etr-usa.com" target="_blank">wyml@etr-usa.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mar 16, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Gabor Szabo <<a href="mailto:gabor@szabgab.com">gabor@szabgab.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 1) A long time ago when I was teaching at a company and told people to install some CPAN module, during installation it wanted to open a port on their computer to run the test. Some of the students were were surprised / shocked on the security implications.<br>
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Network I/O in a CPAN test is indeed a bit questionable.<br>
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I don’t really see how that has anything to do with Dancer, though. If you go and install a web app server framework, generate a web app with the dancer/dancer2 tool, and then *run it by hand*, you are somehow surprised to find that it is serving a web app?! It’s called the “Web” because it connects all computers running web servers; you can’t do that by listening for connections only on localhost.<br>
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I suspect if you did a survey of all the vast number of web app frameworks, that most of them listen on 0.0.0.0. All of those that run under Apache and IIS do, for a start.<br>
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What threat model are you actually working with here? Is it something deeper than just a knee-jerk reaction to an open TCP listener? I mean, what can a default dancer app actually *do* that worries you? Even if you go and run it at the root of your filesystem *as root*, it can’t do anything dangerous like serve up etc/shadow, because it only serves files from its views and public subdirs.<br>
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> Actually I think I know what I'd like, regardless the defaults: I'd like the default configuration files to contain commented out entries for every (or every important) parameter with short explanation and/or with link to the longer explanation.<br>
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So you want roadblocks. You want the dancer helper app to generate an app that won’t run at all until you go in and hack on some configuration files. Do I have that right?<br>
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